Fishing for Tigers
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Six years ago, Mischa Reese left her abusive husband and suffocating life in California and reinvented herself in steamy, chaotic Hanoi. In Vietnam, she finds satisfying work and enjoys a life of relative luxury and personal freedom. Thirty-five and single, Mischa believes that romance and passion are for teenagers; a view with which her cynical, promiscuous expat friends agree.
But then a friend introduces Mischa to his visiting eighteen-year-old son. Cal is a strikingly attractive Vietnamese-Australian boy, but he's resentful of his father, and of the nation which has stolen him away. His beauty and righteous idealism awaken something in Mischa and the two launch into an affair that threatens Mischa's friendships and reputation and challenges her sense of herself as unselfish and good.
Set among the louche world of Hanoi's expatriate community, Fishing for Tigers is about a woman struggling with the morality of finding peace in a war-haunted city, personal fulfilment in the midst of poverty and sexual joy with a vulnerable youth.
'Fishing for Tigers is a sharply observed novel, both page-turning and thought-provoking. It vividly evokes the particular beauty of Hanoi, the intoxication of being a stranger, and the danger of desire.' NEWTOWN REVIEW OF BOOKS
Emily Maguire
Emily Maguire is the author of four novels, including the international bestseller Taming the Beast, and two non-fiction books. Her articles on feminism, sex and culture have been published widely including in The Age, The Weekend Australian and The Observer. Emily has twice been named as a Sydney Morning Herald Young Novelist of the Year (2010 and 2013) and was the recipient of the 2011 NSW Writers' Fellowship. In 2014 she spent six months in Paris as the Nancy Keesing Resident at the Cite International des Arts, and has served as Writer in Residence at the Djerassi Artists Program in Northern California (2009) and as an Asialink Literature Resident in Vietnam (2008). Emily has an MA in literature and works as a teacher and mentor to young and emerging writers. She lives in Sydney.
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